Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Wasm VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Mar 29 2025, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (Model 1)

* -m in a file name stands for multi-threading or multi-processing

* -i in a file name stands for direct intrinsics usage. (Usage of simd intrinsics via libraries is not counted)

* -ffi in a file name stands for non-stdlib FFI usage

* (You may find time < time(user) + time(sys) for some non-parallelized programs, the overhead is from GC or JIT compiler, which are allowed to take advantage of multi-cores as that's more close to real-world scenarios.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 1813ms 71ms 33.1MB 1793ms 7ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1852ms 15ms 49.3MB 1827ms 13ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1860ms 23ms 33.3MB 1840ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 3568ms 85ms 172.9MB 3437ms 117ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4950ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 171ms 3.6ms 19.2MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 180ms 2.7ms 19.1MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 180ms 4.1ms 21.1MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 296ms 3.5ms 15.9MB 277ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 821ms 7.9ms 16.9MB 807ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 1134ms 3.5ms 19.4MB 1117ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 80ms 1.6ms 18.0MB 70ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 417ms 2.9ms 18.6MB 403ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 115ms 2.0ms 17.9MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 4164ms 21ms 16.8MB 4147ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 348ms 2.4ms 17.4MB 337ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 236ms 1.4ms 17.3MB 217ms 3ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 32ms 0.4ms 17.6MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.9ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
wasm 1.rs 6.7ms 0.5ms 17.2MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 89ms 0.8ms 17.3MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 250ms 1.4ms 16.9MB 237ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 48ms 1.8ms 17.4MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 821ms 2.1ms 20.2MB 810ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 43ms 1.1ms 17.4MB 30ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 927ms 58ms 41.1MB 910ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.5MB 4953ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4930ms 60ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 197ms 2.3ms 23.3MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 1255ms 48ms 31.1MB 1227ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2250ms 35ms 28.6MB 2233ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 411ms 2.4ms 17.1MB 400ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 583ms 2.8ms 17.0MB 570ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 4.lua 716ms 2.9ms 2.3MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 49ms 0.6ms 17.0MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 66ms 1.3ms 17.2MB 53ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.2ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1106ms 23ms 2.3MB 1097ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 379ms 5.8ms 22.0MB 367ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 511ms 9.4ms 56.3MB 493ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 96ms 2.9ms 27.1MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 0.4ms 18.3MB 90ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2218ms 13ms 18.1MB 2207ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 524ms 3.2ms 17.3MB 510ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 3616ms 7.7ms 16.8MB 3603ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 916ms 7.5ms 16.8MB 900ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3601ms 3.0ms 16.9MB 3587ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 4074ms 5.9ms 2.5MB 4067ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 4896ms 5.3ms 16.9MB 4883ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 910ms 5.9ms 17.4MB 897ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 1022ms 2.5ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 1232ms 2.6ms 17.1MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 236ms 2.5ms 16.7MB 223ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua 259ms 1.1ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 315ms 1.2ms 17.2MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7